Designing a modern war game .... From: "Domestos" <Domestos@rahrahrandel.fsnet.co.uk> Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 22:35:06 +0000 Hello, I'm designing a modern wargame called 'Nations' I was at a stage where I rwas eady for playtesters but lost the code and eventually gave up trying to restore it... I managed to keep most of the things though and am still committed to producing one of the most detailed modern day wargames around. It will be free to begin with to get the interest going while i fine tune the game. However I have got the creation bug again and just want to keep adding to the game... I was wondering what people would like from a modern day PBM wargame and thought i'd open up to the community and see what they could offer me. Eventually I will have a website for this game to give you the latest news and additions to the game and an area (forum) where you can add what you would like to see included in the game... To begin with here is what i currently have.... 1) Detailed maps of the world with a continent fiitting to an A4 page. These will not be real time updated with your military positions but can be used as a reference. Maybe I can use color to represent the areas you control or somthings... not to sure yet though... 2) Real world nations - United States, Russia, Japan, China, Germany etc. 3) A game start date of Jan 1 2000 4) Real world units for land air and sea i.e F-14 Tomcat, Aircraft Carriersm and Frigates, M1 Abram Tanks, AH-64 Apache helicopters etc... 5) Grouping of units into user defiened groups - i.e. (24) F-15 Eagles named as a 114th Strike Wing etc... 6) Real world distance limitaions. Fighter jets can only fly 350 miles or so and will need to refuel etc... 7) Stealth Aricraft, Submarines, Re-con Planes, Cargo planes, Tanker aircraft, AWACS aircraft, Artilliary units etc... 8) Give different missions to your units such as Combat Air Patrol for a group of fighter over a friendly city to defend it 9) Cities that contain multiple targets for you to attack such as Airports, Factories, Radar Stations, TV Stations, Government Buildings etc... 10) Major Citys, Ports, Military bases, Naval bases etc from the real work... i.e. New York, London, Milan, Tokyo etc... This is just the begining, i'm not promising to have this game finished soon becasue I want it to be detailed. I have a lot of development to do but I have the basic structure of the game in place and want your input as to what to add, or your questions for new ideas and things. Please help and I will pretty soon post up a website which you can contribute too.... Thanks in advance for you help and hopefully you will have some great ideas... Thanks Domestos (Andy Mak) Up